Jade Solid Gold ( Chinese: 勁歌金曲, literally ''"powerful song golden melody"'') is a music show on the

TVB Jade TVB Jade (), or simply Jade, is a Hong Kong Cantonese-language free-to-air television channel owned and operated by Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) as its flagship service, alongside its sister network, the English-language TVB Pearl. Br ...

television channel in

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. It has been running since October 10, 1981.

Broadcasting time

TVB Jade

*Sunday at 11:00pm to 11:45pm

TVB HD Jade

*Next Saturday at 5pm to 6pm

History

Starting on October 10, 1981, every week, Jade Solid Gold features today's

music video A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing devic ...

s, live performances or concerts, and a countdown of the top 20 best albums sold amongst the competition. The show has a live audience. Most of the performances are

cantopop Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of pop music written in standard Chinese and sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production ...

, rock,

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, and light music. Every January the Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation (十大勁歌金曲頒獎典禮) is one of the biggest music awards in

. Along with the

RTHK Top 10 Awards Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards () is one of the main C-pop music award in Hong Kong. The award is sponsored by RTHK. Beginning in 1978, it is the oldest major award in Hong Kong, even earlier than the Jade Solid Gold Top 10 Awards. The cerem ...

, they are the most recognized and publicized awards given. The program also has a companion program called "Jade Solid Gold Song Video Corner ( 金曲挑戰站) ", in which a random music video is featured; hence the name.

Participants

The majority of the singers to appear on the show are

Cantopop Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of pop music written in standard Chinese and sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production ...

or Hong Kong-based artists. Some

mainland Chinese Mainland Chinese or Mainlanders are Chinese people who live in or have recently emigrated from mainland China, defined as the territory governed by the People's Republic of China (PRC) except for Hong Kong ( SAR of the PRC), Macau (SAR of the PRC), ...

and

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...

ese artists have also performed on the show.

Comparisons

A number of music themed shows have a similar format with Jade Solid Gold. This includes 360° (formerly 360° Boundless Music, 360° 音樂無邊) and Global Rhythm (無間音樂).

Presenters

Current presenters

* Carrie Tam * Ally Tse * Auston Lam * Daniel Chau * Alvin Ng * Jessica Law

Former presenters

External links

TVB.com
''Jade Solid Gold'' - Official Website
TVB.com
''Jade Solid Gold'' - 2nd Official Website TVB original programming Cantopop {{HongKong-tv-stub